1,806 Quotes About Reason

Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their children to comply voluntarily with rules that align with important values and to question rules that don’t. Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children rely on the internal compass of values rather than the external compass of rules.

Reincarnation is but a supernatural invention by the savage minds of yesterday in an attempt to take comfort in an imaginary endlessness of life.

Reason is what helps us eliminate our prejudice, but it's love that makes us want to eliminate our prejudice.

Pure philosophy cannot be taught in school, it has to start as a self-journey without filling your head with other people's ideologies.

To be a human it's necessary to carry out the requirements of civilization and the requirements of civilization are reason and compassion.

Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.

Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind;And the only way that life can go wrongis by the limited finite mind.

For behind is our animality and before us our humanity; human light, the only thing that can warm and enlighten us, the only thing that can emancipate us, give us dignity, freedom, and happiness, and realize fraternity among us, is never at the beginning, but, relatively to the epoch in which we live, always at the end of history.

He preferred not to meddle with such problems, they were too discomfiting for him and would only land him in the most agonizing insecurity and disquiet, whereas to make use of one's reason one truly needed both security and quiet.